Tuesday, January 17, 2017

US national arrested in Hyderabad for sharing child porn

Police have arrested an American citizen in Hyderabad for downloading and uploading child pornography. The cybercrime wing of Telangana’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested 42-year-old James Kirk Jones. Jones, who was working with an MNC law firm in Hyderabad, was arrested after the cybercrime received a tip-off about an IP address from which the child pornography content in the form of videos and images was shared.

Jones confessed since childhood he had been watching child pornography and downloading and uploading such stuff had become a habit for him. Police registered a case under Information Technology Act. The Twitter handlers and GigaTribe profiles are further being probed to know if any of the profiles belong to India.